Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is the sixth book by American writer Herman Melville. The work is an epic sea story of Captain Ahab's voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a sperm whale. A contemporary commercial failure and out of print at the time of th…
Deathworld is a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison first published in 1960.Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine.It’s the story of Jason dinAlt a profe…
Deathworld is a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison first published in 1960.Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It’s the story of Jason dinAlt a prof…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature…
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of e…
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.The twelve stories of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are: "Silver Blaze" "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (this story…
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The twelve stories (eleven in American editions) of the Memoirs are: "Silver Blaze" "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"…
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and my…
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his o…
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty big river, that…
The Scarlet Letter:A Romance is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in 1850. The Scarlet Letter is set in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his best work. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Mas…
The Scarlet Letter is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in 1850.The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is set in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his best work. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Mas…
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true inci…
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue…
A Plague of Pythons is a science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl. It was originally published in 1962 in Galaxy magazine and in book form in 1965, it was republished in 1984 under the title Demon in the Skull.The title derives from the words "Domina…
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938 in England.Anthem is taking place at some unspecified future date. Mankind has entered another dark age as a result of what Rand saw as the weaknesses of socialistic thinking…
The Hated is a science fiction short story by Frederik Pohl first published in 1958 under the name Paul Flehr.After space, there was always one more river to cross ... the far side of hatred and murder!Unfortunately, there is a side-effect to lockin…
The Sign of the Four (1890), is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1…
Baskervilles Hund (engelska: The Hound of the Baskervilles) är en detektivroman av Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, med Sherlock Holmes i huvudrollen. Romanen gick ursprungligen som följetong i The Strand Magazine i Storbritannien 1901 till 1902.Den unge Sir…
Ivan Iljitjs död är en kortroman från 1886 av den ryske författaren Lev Tolstoj. Den handlar om en döende man som är skräckslagen inför sin egen död. Boken gavs ut på svenska första gången 1928.Boken handlar om hur Ivan Iljitj, en 45-årig domare i 1…
Against The Grain, or Against Nature is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans.“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult nove…
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor…
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine (1901-1902), it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in Englan…
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1831 edition), is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing…
His Last Bow is a collection of eight Sherlock Holmes stories (seven in some editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, first in The Strand Magazine September 1908 to December 1913, plus the one-off title story (September 1917), also called A Reminiscence of…
His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in some editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, first in The Strand Magazine September 1908 to December 1913, plus the one-off title story (September 1917), also called A Reminiscence of…
Wolfbane is a science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth. Appallingly, the Earth and the Moon had beenkidnapped from the Solar System—but who werethe kidnappers and what ransom did they want? This science fiction novel takes pl…
Wolfbane is a science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, published in 1959.Appallingly, the Earth and the Moon had been kidnapped from the Solar System—but who were the kidnappers and what ransom did they want?This science fic…
Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When…
Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition in 1816, its publication was ta…
Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters a…
Snowball is a science fiction novella by Poul Anderson.Simon's new source of power promised a new era for Mankind. But what happens to world economy when anyone can manufacture it in the kitchen oven?... Here's one answer! Snowball was first publish…
Snowball is a science fiction novella by Poul Anderson. Simon's new source of power promised a new era for Mankind. But what happens to world economy when anyone can manufacture it in the kitchen oven?... Here's one answer! Snowball was first publis…
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole, by extensi…
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula…
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracul…
De Fyras Tecken (engelska: The Sign of Four) är den andra av fyra romaner om Sherlock Holmes, skriven av Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ursprungligen publicerad 1890 i Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.De Fyras Tecken utspelar sig 1887. Skatten från Agra finns…
The Colors of Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley.Bart Steele, Space Academy graduate, is on his way home to his father's business - he runs a fleet of spaceships for interstellar travel. The secret for fast int…
The Tunnel Under The World is a science fiction novella by Frederik Pohl first published in 1955.This famous Pohl story explores cybernetic robots and implanted personalities in a way that certainly expanded my way of looking at reality. Is that wal…
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz.The novel tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Ligia, and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman p…
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz.The novel tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Lygia, and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman p…
The Wanderer's Necklace is an adventure novel by H Rider Haggard.Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D., flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin's right to a human sacrifice, travels to Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) to prote…
Eric BrighteyesorThe Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard.Eric Brighteyes concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nicknamed "Brighteyes" f…
Gullivers resor (engelska: Gulliver's Travels), är en roman skriven av Jonathan Swift år 1726.Gullivers resor, handlar om Lemuel Gulliver, en läkarstuderande i Cambridge, som i sin färd mot Ostindien lider skeppsbrott på mycket speciella ställen. De…
Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-k…
Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast…
It Could Be Anything is a science fiction novella by American author Keith Laumer first published in 1963.A science fiction story by the great Keith Laumer - what more needs to be said?A young man sets out from his rural town to see the world for hi…
The Safety Match is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1922 as part of the collection The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories.The Safety Match is a true locked room mystery with a surprise ending. A retired police office…
"N" is a short horror story by Welsh author Arthur Machen.”N” is an encounter in London of a hidden fairyland, a true psychedelic fable concerning the discovery of an alternative reality existing in the context of a humble, grey north Lo…
The Letters of Jane Austen was published in 1892. This collection includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, collected by Austen's great-nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne. The letters are mostly addressed to Austen's sister Cassandra, with whom she…
The Letters of Jane AustenThis collection, first published 1892, includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, collected by Austen's great-nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne. The letters are mostly addressed to Austen's sister Cassandra, with whom she…
A Pail of Air is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber which appeared in the December 1951 issue of Galaxy Magazine and was dramatized on the radio show X Minus One in March 1956.The story is narrated by a ten-year-old boy living on Earth af…
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wond…
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published in 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The W…
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a story written by Oscar Wilde.The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer…
Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel, first published in 1911.Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working t…
The Sensitive Man is a short science fiction novel byPoul W. Anderson first published in 1954.Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about. What if psychology…
The Sensitive Man is a short science fiction novel byPoul W. Anderson first published in 1954.Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about.What if psychology…
The Happy Unfortunate is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg, first published in 1957.The story explores the angst caused when the human race reaches into space but at the cost of needing to breed a new species; specialized 'spacers' who…
Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime.The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nickn…
Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nick…
The Gods of Mars is a 1913 Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the second of his famous Barsoom series. It was first published in All-Story as a five-part serial in the issues for January–May 1913. It was later published as a complete…
The Hate Disease is a science fiction novella by Murray Leinster first published in 1963.The Med Service people hit strange problems as routine: if they weren't weirdos, they weren't tough enough to merit Med Service attention. Now the essence of a…
A Story of the Stone Age is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897.This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history. . . The story is set during the Stone Age, and tells of a caveman named…
A Story of the Stone Age is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897.This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history. . .The story is set during the Stone Age, and tells of a caveman named U…
The Blue Behemoth is a science fiction novella by Leigh Brackett. Shannon’s Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian swamp-town – to find that deat…
The Courts of the Morning is a 1929 adventure novel by John Buchan, featuring his character Sandy Arbuthnot. The prologue is narrated by Richard Hannay, so the novel is sometimes included in Buchan's Hannay series. The action is set in Olifa, a fict…
